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Hayley Moss is currently regional marketing director for Smiths Medical and has a wealth of experience in the healthcare sector amassed over the last 20 years. Her expertise in building effective marketing teams has seen her work for some of the leading companies in this sector, leading some of the most successful marketing campaigns in […]

At Skout, we’ve always had a flexible working policy which has been instrumental in helping the team juggle various commitments and manage the work-life balance over the past ten years. However, with the UK lockdown making remote working a necessity for most businesses over the past five months, many have seen the benefits it can […]

Interview with Sue Westhead Among her many talents, Sue Westhead is a serial Skout client. We’ve been her B2B PR agency in three separate roles over the past 10 years. One of the reasons we love working with Sue is that, like us, she’s a great integrated thinker when it comes to B2B PR and […]

Covid-19 has brought a multitude of challenges for companies and many have had to rethink their business strategies to adapt to the current climate. To accommodate the changes and maintain operations, a large number of employers have used the government furlough scheme to help them through these times of uncertainty. Skout recently partnered with Sapio […]

At Skout, we’re always more than happy to share our expertise with other companies, which is why we jumped at the chance to participate in the mentoring programme organised by Business France – a scheme which helps French tech start-ups move into the UK market. About Business France and Impact Europe Business France is a […]

Q&A with Sue Duris, M4 Communications This month we’ve kicked off our interview series called ‘To Be B2B’. We’re interviewing different B2B marketing experts for their perspectives on key aspects of the job. In this first post we’d like to introduce Sue Duris, an expert in B2B customer experience (CX) and customer marketing. Sue has […]

As someone just five years into my career in communications, I try to soak up knowledge and experience from wherever I can. Working for an agency like Skout allows me to collect these glistening gems of knowledge and general life experience throughout my day to day activity. I’m thankful that I get to work alongside […]

While it’s business as usual for the Skout team, like every business we have been experiencing a number of changes due to the Coronavirus. The rules of PR have changed. Rather than conducting our meetings and talking to the media from our little office in Macclesfield, we are now working in the safety of our […]

Last week we hosted an informal Zoom gathering to bring together the marketing folk in Skout’s diverse client base so we could connect, share experiences and learn from each other while we continue to run marketing and comms operations remotely. Over the past couple of weeks at Skout we’ve also been thinking about important brand […]